The Sun. — London, England, 1808-05-12 00:00:00

MAILS. A~xtvzu—l Dublin, 3 Waterford. Dur—t Gottenburgb. • PRICE OF STOCK'S Tuts 2.4 Y AT TWr.I.Vr. O'CLOCK. •• ' Consols . -67 i tr I Reduced Apo. . 67 1 7 .; S IT N. tOLtM QUtil DICIRS TALSUU AIJDZAT LONDON, TIII.IRSDAY s NIAY IZ, „1808. We are at length enabled to communicate to our Readers• some authentic intelligence respeet ing BuorrApAitTn'a intentions towards the new King of. SPAI;i. A meeting took place be tween them, not at Bayonne, as was supposed, but On the frontiers of Spain, near Vittoria. -.-;;At this' interview BUONAFARTE received FER• PINAFD with the greatest distinction,, acknow lthiged 'him King of Spain and the Indies, and has confided to him the administration' of Portugal, until the conclusion of a general Peace, Spain is to in the Confederation of the Rhine, and to turniih a contingent of 50,600 men. The late King and Queen are to be sent into France, under a very strong escort. With respe& to the PR/NCO of ,PsA c a, nothing is, we understand, yet determined ' respeding his fate. t The above statetount fully con firms the opinions we have submitted to our Readers upon this subjed. The Revolution appears' to have been entirely the efied of . French intrigue, and by the arratigementi wtfich have taken place, BuorsrApAmi; has become virtually. King of Spain. But though the new GoVerniuent is entirely de voted to France,, the people Of .Spain :scent . very unwilling, to sacrifice their .independence., „Several, cc Mmotions have taken place, and it has been' thought necessary to augment the French troops'in Madrid, to upwards of 50,000 roan, , With respect to Portugal, although the nominal - pdministration of it is to the new King •of Spain, it is obvious that General JUNOT 'Will in reality be the Governor of that unfortunate Country. he marriage between the new King of Spain, and one of the BUONAPARTH Family (we believe Made moiselle LA NAMUR) will shortly take place. , A Report is said to have been brought by the Cheerly Gun-brig, which arrived On Tuesday at Plymouth from the Mediterranean, that the Roche fort and Toulon Squadrons had gut into Port Mahon, Minorca ; but we apprehend this most ben Mistake, There is no doubt that they are in Toni* and we fear th'ere is not much chance of their coming out. 141111AD4 yesterday brought forward in the Muse Commons a .Motion . respeLting. the.appoint mem of Dr. DUIGENAN to be a Privy Conut:illor ; but it was 'nut the Motion of which that Gentleman originally ettenotice. Instead of • . a MotiOn for an Address to,fits MAJESTY; to kflOW WhO adyistd.the appointment of Di . . DincitNAN to be a Privy Coun cillor, Mr. ilium Ast moved for Copie3 of the Ccirres pold betu een the English and II ish Governments upon. the subject Sir A. WectEsccy stated most di.it naCtIV the grounds. uusary . ..ivhigh-the appoint menlAas made. He said that ealesiastical questions were, of course, frequently 'discussed in the Privy Council of Ireland, and that it was thoUght desira ble to have the assistance of the professional know ledge and experience of the Learned Gentleman. — The motion, however, way persisted 7 in, and • nega siv6:l,by a large najority, We cannot quit this sob jeEt without noticing the repeated 'pet - sonal attacks which have been made upon Dr. DuIGP,N4,N, a Gen llemari of t ;r'eat learning, and of onitnpeachable jct . - togrity. Indeed his opponents have ?fever vebtnred to question either his abilities or his iharaEter: his great offence seems to jacithathe is a warm friend tO the P.roteitant iteligienond a strenuous :water of the. rights Jed. tho Establish.ea Church. r trite Oppositi , o endeavoured, upon this as well as upon other Occa sions, to make the Catholics of Ireland believe that some insult was direlited against them by this ap pointment Fbut the Catholics have, we are cOmtinced, too much good sense to be deceived by such artifices, or to suffr, themselves to be made instruments to forty warn toe views of a di eontented Party. We mentioned yesterday the dreadful Fire which broke out at Dover on Tuesday : till c wornitiir we receiked trotn our Correspondent the following de w iis calamitous event DOVER, MAY Tl. A most alarming fire broke out yesterday after noon iv, the warehouse of Messrs. ify.eirint and Ca, adjoining the Ordnance storehouses and buildings, thr. 1 it t ',e carelessmrss of some people employed in .:ring some casks of turpentine throwing the ILitf of a lighted candle on the floor, which caught sr), iaer oakum.that had been wetted with turpentine : it Wail . prevented bl zing for some time by about 120 ' bass of woo) In `ll loft 'over where the fire com menced but the fiamekhaving at length reached many casks of turpentine, ft burst forth with a fury nothing 'could resist. The whole rapge of store. houges of Messrs, Fecrox, which frentea the York Houser are entirely destroyed, with a very large quantity Of prize, gootla taken from the Danish Ships `l , the Oldnance stnrehouse at the back of the Storekeeper's house is alto entirely c onsumed,and many of the adjoining buildings materially damiged. The fire was at such a height - at one-time- 4.1-W threaten the total destroEtion of the Whole square called the Buildings; but, thank Heaven ! there was little or n 4 wind, and providentially the water had been kept up in the Bason, or else . the whole must inevitably have been consumed. A Greek Ship Which : lay dry at the Quay, opposite the store houses, was several times on fire ,in her hull and masts, and but for the exertions of an enterprising seaman, who in the shrouds din:Lied an engine-pipe with great effe6t, would have been destroyed. The principal apprehension arose from some of the ad joining buildings being depositories for Mr. Cori- GREVE'S rockets, powder, and other combustibles; and although the greatest exertions were made in removing them into a Vessel in the Harbour, the flames were so rapid that the whole could not be got out,. consequently several alarming explosions took place, the last of which was by far the greatest, and carried away the roofs, ratters, and materials of /he buildings, and caused such an alarm of what might follow, as to prevent the people approaching to ren der assistance ; happily , however, no fartherexplo sinus took place, and between eight and nine the fire was got under, but is not all out, yet. " There was a general terror that the tire would communicate to the magazine —many of the houses were in consequence entirely deserted, and numbers of women and children hurried into the country--,a great many indeed went to Folkstone for the night. The property destroyed is immense—it it said to exceed. 30,0001. but it cannot' be estimated accu rately ." • or Mr. &tilt u whose mime is sufficient to ststnii any °pi 'llion al moot on corn irtemin I a...fnirS'lVith a consirk.i able Oepr6e of credit, observed last night, in the House of Commons, that it was his opihion thitt the rise in the price of Stocks was chiefly, if not entirely, to be attributed to the Warn of means to employ great Capitals in commerce as heretofore."— Nurnive Chrodele. We differ exceedingly from the Writer of this article, as to the prodigious degree of credit to which the opinion of Mr. BARING is entitled. For our selves, and we 'speak upon due consideration, we do not know a Member in either House, whose judgMent; in any thing that regards the true inte rests of this. Country, we should not rely •on with mere confidence than .on that of Mr. BAR ING. What entitles this Ge:itlen*ii to such woO derful respea ? As a partisan of America, we believe that he may be listened to with etfeCt : his Pam- phiet, in which (to speak the jargon of his. adopted friendS) he adinkated the Callbt: Of that ;Country with all the artifice of a hired pleader, sufficiently proves it. But this should render his political creed an object .of just suspicion to every English. man, with whonr.Mr. BARINg has neither art nor part ; his connexions, his property, his soul, being in America. Much, however, as we .reprobate the barefii.!ed attack oft us in that Pamphlet, which the inalignityof to lion,. by descending to the. meanness of pulling it in their speeches, carried through two editions, we 'Certainly rejoice at its • ptiblication.— , Under the appearance an English Merchant, Bitatigo might ,have maintained that unfortu nate influence which has been exerted over more than one Administration ; as ad open impugner of our condu&, as a. counsellor for those that ,envy, and those that hate us, against the tocosure s of Administration, we suspect that he will make few or no proselytes out of his own party. Tile ar- duur of youth has led him to break through the cautious restrictions of his ; and his credit, as a politician, since the appearance of liks p atti . plilet, wiil juit go fur as much as it is worth, like that of any other , aut►lrr4.3l afiettt Aaf 'Orly other country. . , respell to the opinion which chew forth the high.sonncling panegyrick of the Morning Chronicle, it is not of so recenditc'a nature, but that it might have occurred to TA I,Llipt AND, or Mr. JEFFERSON, or any other person who,was equally anxious to dis prove the prevailing opinion, that the prosperity of the Funds depended on the prosperity of the Coun try. Upon this head, however, we beg leave to offer our sincere congratulations to Mr. B. As, in his opinion, "the rise the price of stocks, is chiefly, if not entirely, to be attributed to the want of commerce," the Funds of America (now in this happy state of commercial want), in which Mr, B. i s f ar m e re deeply interested than was generally sup posed before he torned author, will naturally expe rience a proportionable advance, nod console him for the ill success .of his political speculations op British injustice and British tendency to ruin, We ought not to conceal from our Readers, that many of our must respeciable Merchauts,:-wh o Have not married American Ladies, transinitted uncount 'ed thousands to support American Funds, 'orlaid not: , the prig: of provinces. in grubbing up 4tneTican forests, differ somewhat from Mr. B. as to the cause of this odious " rise in the price of stocks.",. They _attribute it in a very imperceptible degree . to the reason alleged by this Gentleman;, but " chiefly, if not entirely," to the stnal/ness of the loin, to the late period at which it is called for, to the largeness of the,sums daily taken out of the market--by the Sinking Fund s to the excellence of the new plan of Finance, to the confidence of the Country in the wisdom and vigour of Administration, and, above all, to the utter removal of the men who enjoyed the cordial support of Mr. B. and whose truckling and temporizing politics sunk and debased us in the sight of Europe and The world. Yesterday, at two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Private Levee at the Queen's Palace, which was at tended by— The Lord Chancellor, the First L6rd of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the three Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Sycretary at War, the Secretary for Irish Affairs ; the Dukes of . Gordon and Beau- fort • the Marquisses of I luntley and Tweedale ; Earl s Stam— ford 'and Lansdale; Viscount Falmouth; Lords Willoughby De Broke, Heathtield, and Lowther ; Sirs C. Cotterell and H. Mildmay ; Mr. justice Bailey ; Admirals Loiack, Ro binson, and Nugent ; Generals Tharnton,Campbril, Phipps, Benson, Finch, Gwynne, Sian wix, I-lope, and Brownrty,g ; Colonels Brown and Barns; Captains Rainier and W. I.osat;k. The following bad the honour of being presented #o his MAJESTY • Viscount Falmouth, upon his coming to his title, by the bulcc of lieautbrt. • . Lord Lowther, by the Earl of Lansdale. Copt: I'ctcr Rainier, upon hiS return from India, hnir in consequence of the anion he fought ist Batavia Roads, on the 'Ha l of odober. t 806.• Mr.' lustice bailey, by the Lord Chancellor, upon his being appointed one of the lakes of the Court of King's brach, upon which occasion hi.; Majesty war pleased to confer the honour or Knighthood upon him. • The Marquis of Huntley, upon his being appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Ab4deen. The Marquis o/ Twerdalc, by the Duke of Gordon, upon coming to his title, being of age, and being appointed a Lieu tenant in the First Regimrot of Guards. Lieutenant Colonel Stevenson barns, of the Royals, upon his appointment, . • 'The following were presented on their promotion: "'Admiral Nugent ; Rear-Atirnirals Mark Robinson mkt G. Losaek ; Generals Sir 1. Pulteney, Campbell, Gywnne, Lords Heathfieid, and Stanwix ; Major-General the Hon. A. Hope ; Lieut.-Generals Thornton, Phipps ,Benson, Sir ,A. Wellesley, and Brownrigg; Colonel Brown, of the rub IM ! goons ; Captains W. losack and Cramer. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and cave audiences to the Duke, of I'oaTLAND, and the other Cabinet Ministers. On Tuesday the Prince of WALES, the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE, and other Royal Dukes., visited `titan MAJESTIES and the PwiNcassEs, soon after their arrival from Windsor. In the evening THEIR MAJESTIi:s had a - selea party to tea and cards. - Yesterday at one o'clock, her MAJESTY and four of the PaINCESSES set otf from Buckingham House, through the Birdcage Walk, in two coaches and four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, in order to pay a visit to their Royal Highnesses the 'Princess of WALEs and 'Duchess of liatrNswick, at Black heath, and returned a little before five. Elis Excellency the Portogueso 40 . 1tratisadov's amuse, in South Audley-street,. was sple ndidly minated last night, in honour of the safe arrival of the Royal Family of Portugal at the Brazils. Ten thousand pounds a year is the annuity pro posed to be granted to the Duchess of BRUNSWICK. The expedition which sailed from .Yarmouth- Roads on Tuesday morning, consisted of between two and three hundred sail, and presented a most Magni tiCOnt hpeOacle. It is a most powerful arma ment, and ;is it proceeded with a fair wind, we hope ji will scion' be able to commence its important ope, rations. • The Gun-boats which accompany it draw only two feet water, and are supposed to be intend ed; to cover the landing of the troops. A• gentleman is arrived in town who left Cadiz the t oth of April. He says, the change is almost in eredible which has - on a sudden taken place in the dis :position of the people of Spain towards the French, ,whom they now-execrate, and consider As a banditti of cruel plunderers. They would, he affirms, rise in a mass, if not induced by the 'Proclamations of their Government, to refrain from violence. The same Gentleman states, that be lately made an excursion into Portugal, whose unhappy inhabitants wish only for 10,000 men from England and 30,000 stand of arms, to assist them in expelling their cruel foes from the country. PATO(); le late Ady)1111 RAl rimit has left property to the =cunt of nearly tk'250,000 ; and alter providing amply for leis near relations, has made the following bequest " I bequeath one-tenth part of my personal property to the Chancellor of the : k xchequer, for the time being, towards the redudion of the National Debt, in acknowledgment of the generous bounty of the national establishment of the Royal Navy, in which I have acquired the principal part of the fortune I now have, which has exceeded my merit and pretensions.", The Cork Chronicle of Monday se'nnight says : " We'are sincerely gratified to'be able to state, from indispUtable authority,. that there is in this country a supplyof provisions fully adequate to the consump tion of the season. The stock of oats iri this City and in pmerick amounts to 140,000 barrels, inde pendently of what the distilleries have stored, and of what may be in various other hands." The gold mine in the County of Wicklow has been fbr some time, and at present, working with success, as also some copper and lead mines in the same county. The ore, in general, is very rich, and the copper and lead strongly impregnated with par ticles of gold and-silver. The pursuits of these useful . . undertakings must necessarily turnout highly advan tageous to the Country. His Majesty's Ship Procris arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th Fob. from Portsmooth, and sailed again on the 24th for the East Indies.— The Abundance Storeship and Sally Transport, from Portsmouth, arrived at the Cape on the .Bth Feb. The Danish East Indiaman Marian, Capt. Boreal', and the liarregoard; --- from Bengal, have been captured and sent into the Cape, the former by his Majesty's Ship Corraranl•, the hitter by his Majes ty'; Ship Otter. DVOHFSS OF MONTROSE.—Ii is with much pleasure use inform the public Quit this truly amiable • and accomplished ornament of the iLitish Nobility, who tia been for some *tithe alarmingly indisposed, is now in a i-,Jy promising state of amendment. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTfr, MAY 10.—The sheerly Gun-brig, which arrived here yesterday, brought Dispatches from Admiral Sir C. COTTON'S Feet off' the Tagus, which she left all well, 12 days days since, the crews extremely heal thband abundantly supplied with provisions and water. She brings_ intelligence of a very gallant exploit performed by the Beat. of the Itiyinphe Frigate and Blossom Sloop of War, &Rol which from each of those Ships, manned and armed, proceeded, up the Tagus about three weeks since, undercover of the night, in order ,to attack a large Portuguese Brig,' mounting 20 guns, manned with a French crew; which lay moored above' Belem Castle . , and immediately off the 'city of Lisbon; the Boats got very near her before they were discovered, when a tremendous fire was opened upon them from the Ship, anti, from several thousand troops ,which lined the shore. Captain Balmy, thd torn.' wander of the Nymplc4 headed the expedition, and got first alongside the enerny, and was the first who attempted to board,whlth he had nearly effea ed when he was unfortunately shot by SI musket balk and immediately fell overboard' and was seen no more ! This 'calamitous circumstance so "Jampet , , the spirits of the boats' crew', and finding ihein selves opposed by such an immense force, the enter• prize was forthwith abandoned, and the boats return ed down the harbour With the loss of their brave Cow :wander, one'seaman killed, and a midshipman and three seamen Wounded. Captain StiaLEY 15 prel4oo Its a . most brave and gallant Officer; about twerity-4ix years of age, and fell nobly while'exciting Ilia faithful companions to fol• low him in the conquest of the Enemy, and this would assuredly have been the case, had his valuable life but been spared ; but, alas ! he has followed the Heroes of his Country to Glory ! The Cheer*/ fell in of Scilly'with the Reno:mode Frigate, from the Mediterian.ean, from whom she r 0 ceived intelligence that the combined Toulon god Rochefort Squadrons were at Fort nor Ca. The Renoinnzie is gone foi Arrived the //augithj Gun-brit with dispatches.. Two days after sa she fell in with on American Vessel apealte, who informed her that th' dron bad arrived there, but no attached to this story. Sailed the Cambrian Frigate on POATablaWrit i , at tit cnlcodihr Si 0044 r, Cebttie the Crit :4; from the Cape of Goad Hope, the sth March, saw btu one Ship The Pheasant Sloop of War, this Jay came into Harbour. The Flying Fisk anti sint Schoo to the Dow n s. • , -- PEAL, MXY 11.-- Arrive) this morning, ° l l 4 sailed tin. the River, the Eurydice, CONIETON, IrOril Sim-in:m . 4 ; and his Majesty's Ship dlesandriap Irc na Plymotali, aW KCIVaII3S in the p.whs with the SiliPl US ver last,. • EDI NBURG,It k MAX 9.—Last night arrived_in kith Roads his A.Naejesty's Sloop Childers, tratu a crovz• after the Privateer that lately appeared on the- Noit l4 , coast, whichVissil she fortunately tell in with an d captured, a few days since, without resistance- The Privateer ie t 4,t4 yet arrived, but is hourly ex 7 pected, CORK, MAT 6.--This morning his Majesty'; Sloop Helena, Captain W0a..r.11, arrtV . ed at 'tile PO from a cruize; and his Majesty's Ship rtvini* Captain ilitaxs, sailed on a crulz IJUlt'll 1../14 iv', c 5.... Irt Mahon, in Mit n. Portsmouth. rIl ig, from Atltigat7; ;ailing froM the sel from the Ch ' : le Rochefort '.i`,;* , credit what .. 5 ."- , ,-. • 1 a cre,i se, ' , t: .y,.i . ' Ned twig ~.,:l 1 :.-.'-:- I bet[C: 1. le, sailed IWO. ~,'','', 1 )on . the - ' 4N;i,.. ; ' • 0 ' ' Pe, * • , _aptepa ,,....„„...,,, ; orient ukke w. . , ROYAL AOAD 4141 Y. Uo. 7s. Portrait of Lady litithcoto. —W. vr rN,R A. This artist has raised hiinself into the tirA clog of our Portrait Painters, and there are always those accessory : graces in his compoiitions, which sOeW,, that he has talents capable of r I eaemng far be. yond the province in which t h ey are generally ein/ ployed. The . Picture before us is marked by truth of vharaa , ,r s • correct/Has s r s d ofn3plo dignity. No. is. Venus and Adonis. —T. I' n tt..t.us,,_ M.A. weft. If we had not seen this. suujea, as treated by TITIAN', we should form a higher opinion of the ruetizs of the present Artist than we are induced to do by the work before us. In fad, it may ibe al most considered as a copy of pictures on the same subject by that great Painter. However, the works of this Artist are entitled to respeCt, and this year shew strung tnarks of improvement. No. .104. A Halt of Roman Soldiers.—Sir F. root. otos*, R.A. If we are rightly informed, this piettre was the work of ten days; but v, hat retied:, still mare ere• dit an the Artist, it was painted with the oenevo" lent view of being sold to Mr. Atirsa,' a Gen:tenon of well- known taste and liberality, for the benefit Of the widow of an Artist who lately died, and has ici f his family- in UnprosperoUs 'l°3 Pt ure is in the style of SALVATOR, and not ics honourable to the talents than it is to the benevoloPt disposition ut the Artist. No. s 7. Porttalt of Lord Mulgravo.—Sit W. Biz cx sy, R•A ' Phis • ts a very faithful and spirited likeness of the the noble original, and is worthy of 016 high reputa tion of the Artist. It possesses a strength of char:titter: a chastity of colouring, and a boldness of effect entitle it to a high degree of admiration. • Lirly yesterday morning a tire, broKe .out 0 coachtnakel 4 s,. tiear the Ntigcla - leh;.. at the bac ° Blacltilar's-road, consuiped six houses , - •